Platform9 enables creation of efficient and scalable resource tiers using OpenStack host aggregates. Aggregates allow you to: Create virtual clusters or tiers of resources by group together one or more... Read More
This article explains CPU and memory overcommitment feature of OpenStack. KVM hypervisor is can overcommit CPU and memory resources for a virtual machine. This results in higher consolidation and cost savings. OpenStack Nova... Read More
This tutorial describes how to create and deploy Windows virtual machine images using Platform9. Platform9 currently does not support creating a new virtual machine from scratch. You need to use... Read More
Cloud-init has emerged to the be de-facto multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance. For more information on cloud-init, refer here: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ This tutorial describes how to... Read More
If you have uploaded your virtual machine images to the designated image catalog folder on your host that’s been assigned the image catalog role, and you still don’t see those... Read More
This article describes steps to configure NFS shared storage to get it working with your Platform9 OpenStack private cloud. By default, Platform9 assumes certain locations on your Linux server for... Read More
There are multiple ways to create a CentOS image compatible with OpenStack Glance image repository. You can: Download a pre-built image from RedHat RDO: https://openstack.redhat.com/Image_resources (default user is ‘centos’ on... Read More
This article describes the process to prepare your Scientific Linux virtual machine image, for file system resize to work. NOTE: This process has been testing with Scientific Linux version 6.6.... Read More
The most common reason for this is if VMware DRS is not enabled for the cluster. Platform9 (OpenStack) requires that VMware DRS is enabled in order to work with a... Read More